checking if remote plugins are connected

[wadesready]

spud is there a way to check to see if remote connected plugins like Kinect are connected to hs3? I have one system, and I can't figure out what is doing it but the command window with kinect running keeps getting killed. So I thought it would be nice if I could make an event that would run and tell me when a remote instance connects and when it is not connected anymore. I tried the easytrigger "plugin is running and plugin is not running" but neither will work because those kinect instances show up as "loaded remotely"



any ideas?

[Michael McSharry]

Most plugins support some form of browser (http) interface. Polling this with a lack of response indicating the plugin is down may work. Just depends on the failure mode of the plugin.

In some of mine I do ticket punches and wrap around monitoring. I have also used scheduled daily restart. In the past I have used Guardian Angel to monitor and typically restart when failure detected. On Linux I more often use systemctl to start and then restart if application fails.

[wadesready]

Most plugins support some form of browser (http) interface. Polling this with a lack of response indicating the plugin is down may work. Just depends on the failure mode of the plugin.

In some of mine I do ticket punches and wrap around monitoring. I have also used scheduled daily restart. In the past I have used Guardian Angel to monitor and typically restart when failure detected. On Linux I more often use systemctl to start and then restart if application fails.

Thanks for the ideas Michael! I ended up solving this using Jon's log monitor. so far it is working like I was wanting.